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letter in Main Line Suburban Life, 4/15/10 To the Editor: As Mark Twain wrote, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Well, Congressman Gerlach, much of what you assert in last week’s As I See It piece simply ain’t so. As [...]

letter from Jamie McVickar, Daily Local News, April 08, 2010 So, let’s review some of the roar from the far-right crowd in the Daily Local. According to various letterwriters, Congress is driving over a cliff and can’t be trusted with a dead dog; one writer has done his own math to find that the true [...]

By the Patriot-News Editorial Board March 26, 2010, 7:39AM Pennsylvania might not have a team in the NCAA Basketball Tournament Sweet 16, but our state has now joined the “Angry 13” after Attorney General Tom Corbett added us to a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of health care reform. In a purple state such as Pennsylvania, [...]

I just called Candidate-for-Governor–oops, I meant to say Attorney General–Tom Corbett’s office and told the nice lady on the phone (does anyone out there believe she’ll pass my comments on?) the following: 1. I am a Commonwealth taxpayer. 2. I do not support the thesis that the Health Care Law is unconstitutional. 3. I do [...]

pa2010.com, 3/29/10 The blow-back against Attorney General Tom Corbett’s decision to join a suit trying to block health care reform legislation continued Thursday, with a liberal group saying it would file Right to Know requests seeking more information on correspondence that led to the lawsuit and Gov. Ed Rendell reiterating his call for Corbett to [...]

eNewsletter – March 2010 Our efforts both in Washington and here in the 7th District to overcome the economic challenges we face together continue. I am proud to have helped pass historic and long-awaited health care reform that not only fulfills a moral obligation to make quality, affordable care accessible to all Americans, but also addresses [...]

We’re a Senate vote from enacting the whole package of health care reform legislation we wanted, but we still have to protect our achievement from those who will try to undermine it. Stop Attorney General Corbett from Attacking Health Care Reform Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett is one person who is trying to kill reform. [...]

“I think it is readily apparent to people that the attorney general’s motivation here is purely political. He’s running for governor. If he were concerned about his budget or budget cuts … then he would be focused on that.” – Johnna Pro, spokeswoman for PA House Appropriations Chairman Dwight Evans (D-Philadelphia), re/ controversy over PA [...]

email from MoveOn, 3/22/10 Yesterday, the House of Representatives made history.  Even with the bill’s flaws, health care reform is the most important piece of progressive legislation in decades. Below is a list of ten of the most important things health care reform will accomplish for everyday Americans—all of which Representative Joe Pitts opposed by voting [...]

by: William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers, Sunday 21 March 2010 Demonstrators outside the U.S. Capitol, angry over the proposed health care bill, shouted “nigger” Saturday at U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia congressman and civil rights icon who was nearly beaten to death during an Alabama march in the 1960s. The protesters also shouted obscenities [...]